On winning DC and its overall importance in the discussion for all-time greats

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Originally Posted by Orbis

Davis Cup should never have really mattered in the GOAT discussion anyway since it's a team event. If you're talking about the GOAT singles player then you should mainly look at individual results.If some unknown talent came out of some random tiny country (no chance to win DC) and won 20 slams, no one would give a single shit if that player didn't have DC. The fact is, success in DC is largely determined by what country you come from or play for in the first place, which most players haven't had any control over.

I love every kind of outdoor tennis, but actually here there is plenty of clay courts and barely no grass or hard courts at all, so I have always been way more familiar with clay. Indoor HC is the one I like the least.

Sorry for you little scrubs, but clay is tennis, and I says it although it is the surface I like less playing. You have to build the point, and not just to bash as Angela Lansbury accusing the various characters in her thrillers.

I dislike grass: the colour, the game it takes, the tournaments (excluding Wimbledon). It quite sucks.

^ Well said. Unless people are actually skipping the events (major and all), I doubt that anyone actually *hates* these surfaces.

That said, I strongly dislike clay, and that doesn't stop or start with Nadal. I just don't like the type of tennis that it has historically rewarded. Soderling, and to a lesser extent Ferrero, were greatly refreshing to me for the game they worked on clay.

Still, I'm one for having a balance on tour and keeping from homogenized surfaces, so the bigger offense to me might be a slow hard court like the ones at Indian Wells.